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The attack of zombie science - They look like scientific papers. But they’re distorting and killing science. ~science Article 2495 words, published Jan 12 2022 8 votes
What "impossible" meant to Richard Feynman ~science physics.quantum Article 2588 words, published Nov 24 2021 7 votes
The man who drank Cholera and launched the yogurt craze. Ilya Metchnikoff laid the foundation for modern probiotics. ~science biology Link 5 votes
Why we should think twice about colonizing space ~space Article 2052 words, published Jul 18 2018 15 votes
Coding human data into microbes that will survive for millions of years ~science biology.micro Link 4 votes
How eugenics shaped statistics ~science mathematics statistics Article 6998 words, published Oct 28 2020 9 votes
The hard problem of breakfast — How does it emerge from bacon and eggs? ~humanities philosophy Article 1367 words, published Aug 5 2020 3 votes
New techniques are helping medical researchers develop new anti-cancer drugs and gain a better understanding of how existing ones work ~science medicine Article 1311 words, published Jul 27 2020 5 votes
Survival of the friendliest: It’s time to give the violent metaphors of evolution a break ~science biology Article 2619 words, published Mar 17 2017 8 votes
Will we find extraterrestrial life on ice worlds? Why Europa is the place to go for alien life. ~space astronomy Article 2429 words 4 votes
A magician explains why we see what’s not there ~science biology psychology Article 2586 words 6 votes
How designers engineer luck into video games ~games Article 2817 words, published Mar 14 2019 9 votes
It's the end of the gene as we know it ~science biology Article 2867 words, published Jan 2 2019 15 votes
How NASA’s mission to Pluto was nearly lost ~space astronomy Article 3891 words, published May 17 2018 6 votes
What a Russian smile means - How culture and history make American and Russian smiles different ~science sociology Article 3069 words 8 votes
An excerpt from "The Overstory: A Novel" by Richard Powers ~books fiction Article 4267 words, published Apr 5 2018 2 votes
Can you overdose on happiness? The science and philosophy of deep brain stimulation. ~science psychology Article 3887 words 6 votes